Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care? That question did not seem to faze Commerce Department bureaucrats, who last week lovingly unveiled Social Indicators 1976, a 647-page, relentless compilation of statistics on just about everything you ever wanted to know about Bicentennial Year America. The lavishly illustrated tome was four years in the amassing. Trivia-mongers can buy it for $7 from the U.S. Government Printing Office. But scattered among all the more useless stats are some fascinating facts and projections about the nation. Samples...
...fill out, and virtually eliminated them for small businessmen who employ ten or fewer people. In December, she announced that OSHA is abolishing 1,100 of its more than 10,000 regulations; her hit list will require more than 250 pages of explanation in the Federal Register. By reducing trivia, Bingham hopes to concentrate on the genuine dangers that still exist in the workplace, notably in the heavy manufacturing, petrochemical and maritime occupations. She pledges that "OSHA's going to be looking for the whales, not the minnows...
...death" of a Spanish Republican soldier; the dead Chinese child being carried to a mass grave like a sack of laundry; Mussolini flapping his arms like a prize rooster; MacArthur sloshing ashore in the Philippines; the pinups of the '40s-Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth and that trivia-test stumper, Chili Williams, "the Polka-Dot Girl." A perfect gift for the old Sarge...
...salesmanship. Not only does he synthesize his ideas into a provocative theory, but he presents this synthesis so articulately that you begin to wonder if the ivory towers really hold the answers and if academics are not making a mistake by focusing so much of their attention on recondite trivia of the past as opposed to the more immediate, observable present...
...ever playing trivia and someone asks for the corniest lines you've ever heard, try the following: Girl (approaching an actor she has seen only on the screen): I love you. Actor: Give me two minutes and I'll love you right back...